Yeaveley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Yeaveley, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Appletree
- Alkmonton
- Ashe
- Aston
- Barton [Blount]
- Bentley
- Boylestone
- Bradley
- Brailsford
- Bupton
- Clifton
- Doveridge
- Eaton [Dovedale]
- Edlaston
- Ednaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Yeaveley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Yeaveley.
Listed Buildings Near Yeaveley
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Yeaveley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Wheatsheaf Farmhouse and attached cowshed - 0.07 km
- Yeaveley House - 0.13 km
- Barn to South East of Yeaveley House - 0.16 km
- Holy Trinity Church - 0.17 km
- Malt House Farmhouse - 0.2 km
- Rodsleywood - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Yeaveley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Yeaveley:
Yeaveley Today
Today Yeaveley lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 303 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Yeaveley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Yeaveley
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© David Stowell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Dunford · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martyn Glover · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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